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Overview

Bram Adams is affiliated with Queen's University in Canada and works primarily in the field of Computer Science, with a focus on subfields such as Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Science Applications, and Software. Their research spans multiple topics, including Software Engineering Research, Software System Performance and Reliability, Open Source Software Innovations, Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Software Reliability and Analysis Research, and Information and Cyber Security.

Recent publications by Bram Adams include the following papers:

  • The Evolution of the Linux Build System (2024), published by Technische Universität Berlin - Universitätsbibliothek
  • A Qualitative Study of the Benefits and Costs of Logging From Developers' Perspectives (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • The "Shut the f**k up" Phenomenon: Characterizing Incivility in Open Source Code Review Discussions (2021), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • On the Impact of Interlanguage Dependencies in Multilanguage Systems Empirical Case Study on Java Native Interface Applications (JNI) (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Reliability
  • On the Untriviality of Trivial Packages: An Empirical Study of npm JavaScript Packages (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Frequently publishing in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Empirical Software Engineering, IEEE Software, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Bram Adams contributes to well-recognized conferences and journals in their areas of study.

Collaboration is a notable part of Bram Adams' research activities, with several frequent co-authors including Ahmed E. Hassan, Filipe R. Cogo, Abdul Ali Bangash, Ellis E. Eghan, and Emad Shihab. These collaborations contribute to a body of work covering various aspects of software engineering and related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • A large-scale empirical study of just-in-time quality assurance

    Y. Kamei;E. Shihab;B. Adams;A. E. Hassan

  • The impact of code review coverage and code review participation on software quality: a case study of the qt, VTK, and ITK projects

    Shane McIntosh;Yasutaka Kamei;Bram Adams;Ahmed E. Hassan

  • An empirical study of the impact of modern code review practices on software quality

    Shane Mcintosh;Yasutaka Kamei;Bram Adams;Ahmed E. Hassan

  • Revisiting common bug prediction findings using effort-aware models

    Yasutaka Kamei;Shinsuke Matsumoto;Akito Monden;Ken-ichi Matsumoto

  • Do developers feel emotions? an exploratory analysis of emotions in software artifacts

    Alessandro Murgia;Parastou Tourani;Bram Adams;Marco Ortu

  • Security versus performance bugs: a case study on Firefox

    Shahed Zaman;Bram Adams;Ahmed E. Hassan

  • What Do Programmers Know about Software Energy Consumption

    Candy Pang;Abram Hindle;Bram Adams;Ahmed E. Hassan

  • Do faster releases improve software quality?: an empirical case study of Mozilla Firefox

    Foutse Khomh;Tejinder Dhaliwal;Ying Zou;Bram Adams

  • An Empirical Study on Inconsistent Changes to Code Clones at Release Level

    Nicolas Bettenburg;Weyi Shang;Walid Ibrahim;Bram Adams

  • A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Software Reuse in Mobile Apps

    Israel J. Mojica;Bram Adams;Meiyappan Nagappan;Steffen Dienst

  • An empirical study on inconsistent changes to code clones at the release level

    Nicolas Bettenburg;Weiyi Shang;Walid M. Ibrahim;Bram Adams

  • Assisting developers of big data analytics applications when deploying on hadoop clouds

    Weiyi Shang;Zhen Ming Jiang;Hadi Hemmati;Brain Adams

  • Will my patch make it? And how fast? Case study on the Linux kernel

    Yujuan Jiang;Bram Adams;Daniel M. German

  • An empirical study of build maintenance effort

    Shane McIntosh;Bram Adams;Thanh H.D. Nguyen;Yasutaka Kamei

  • Understanding reuse in the Android Market

    Israel J. Mojica Ruiz;Meiyappan Nagappan;Bram Adams;Ahmed E. Hassan

  • An exploratory study of the evolution of communicated information about the execution of large software systems

    Weiyi Shang;Zhen Ming Jiang;Bram Adams;Ahmed E. Hassan

  • Studying re-opened bugs in open source software

    Emad Shihab;Akinori Ihara;Yasutaka Kamei;Walid M. Ibrahim

  • Energy profiles of Java collections classes

    Samir Hasan;Zachary King;Munawar Hafiz;Mohammed Sayagh

  • An industrial study on the risk of software changes

    Emad Shihab;Ahmed E. Hassan;Bram Adams;Zhen Ming Jiang

  • Are bullies more productive?: empirical study of affectiveness vs. issue fixing time

    Marco Ortu;Bram Adams;Giuseppe Destefanis;Parastou Tourani

Frequent Co-Authors

Ahmed E. Hassan
Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University
Foutse Khomh
Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal
Meiyappan Nagappan
Meiyappan Nagappan University of Waterloo
Zhen Ming Jiang
Zhen Ming Jiang York University
Emad Shihab
Emad Shihab Concordia University
Shane McIntosh
Shane McIntosh McGill University
Mika V. Mäntylä
Mika V. Mäntylä University of Helsinki
Yasutaka Kamei
Yasutaka Kamei Kyushu University
Daniel M. German
Daniel M. German University of Victoria
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc Concordia University

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